An article from TechCrunch on how Twitter, more specifically ReTweets and Links, drive traffic to their site.

And it is the approach that Dasient is taking to attack the ever growing and evolving security problem of malware and the social web.  If they can help companies identify and address the security compromises on their websites prior to being blacklisted by Google, it should be worth every penny.

Here is an article on the recent launched Dasient and their service.

Twubs is groups for Twitter.  It creates groups using #hashtag based content aggregation.  The part that I excited is the Twubs event suite.

I am planning to use Twubs for my next event from event scheduling to live moderation to event streaming to post event sharing of the event’s artifacts.  I definitely write a postmortem report on my experience with Twubs.

The fight between Palm and Apple is turning out to be a good fight with a pretty good story line.  Palm is the older fighter trying to prove that they are not over the hill so they can rekindle their career and Apple is the current champion.

Just looking at this fight on paper, everyone would have guess an easy win for the current champion but, after a few rounds, it is shaping up to be a fight worth watching.

Round 1 – Palm steals Apple Execs and upgrades it’s talent pool.  I score the round 10-8 for Palm

Round 2 – Palm has a successful product launch and gets the majority of the press leading into Apple’s WWDC.  I scored the round 10-8 for Palm.

Round 3 – Palm’s Web OS meets expectations and syncs with iTunes because iTunes believes it is an iPod.  I am sure that it is more than mere coincidence since Palm’s brand spanking new CEO, Jon Rubinstein, is Apple’s former SVP iPod.  I scored the round 10-9 for Palm.

Round 4 – Everyone was expecting the new iPhone OS 3.0 this june but Apple surprises many with the announcement of a new iPhone, the 3G S.  I scored the round 10-8 for Apple.

Round 5 – Apple announces that they do not support 3rd party digital media players and that newer versions may not provide syncing functionality with non-Apple digital media players.  I scored the round 10-9 for Apple.

I am eagerly awaiting Round 6.  I currently have Palm ahead on my scorecard, 46 to 45.

It seems that in Iran, it is not the case and it is wildly popular and the region is FriendFeed’s most active region in user interaction.  So while Twitter is getting all the publicity surrounding the Iranian Protests, FriendFeed was the social network that was feared and led the Iranian Government to blocked the website.

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I have long believed that Twitter’s opening question, “What are you doing?”, is possibly the worst use of Twitter and, continues to be pushed as the main use of the social network, will lead to the destruction of Twitter.  It is because, aside from your mother, people just really don’t care about you that much.  They do not care that you are in line for your fourth Iced MochaFrapaChino.  They don’t care that you just made dinner or that you stepped in some gum.  They just don’t care.  Oh and to remove any ambiguity, your father does not care either.

If you are a celebrity, people might make it to 5 or 6 useless tweets about celebrity’s everyday life prior to tuning them out.

It is this useless tweet syndrome that I believe leads to the quick inactivity of your average twitter user.

In my opinion, the true power of Twitter is not the sharing of all information.  It is the sharing of USEFUL or INTERESTING  information.

An airplane crashes into the Hudson River, tweet about it.

The 101 Freeway is completely closed at the 405 Freeway Interchange, not just slow because bad traffic in LA is not an unusual event, tweet about it.

You found an interesting article, tweet about it and post a link!

I rarely find myself writing a tweet that doesn’t have a link.  I see an interesting article and then I’ll write a short opinion and include a link.

While many might believe that running an ad campaign is the best use of Twitter, I disagree.  I believe the sharing of links, which drives traffic, is the true power of Twitter.

It seems that Twitter investor, Fred Wilson believes that Links = $ in this TechCrunch Article.

I have been there and it is not fun.

So I was glad to see that a new start up, AdWhirl, is offering a solution to this problem by allowing iPhone application developers to dynamically change ad networks without having to issue an update and going through the App Store hassle.

I plan on giving them a try on one of our free apps.

Either way, an interesting article from ReadWriteWeb.

According to an interesting article on ReadWriteWeb, Purewire’s latest tool Tweet Grade reveals some interesting trends regarding Twitter and it’s users.

And just for the record, I have an “A” Tweet Grade.